Last year, US space agency NASA selected Gram Power's technology among the top-10 cleantech innovations from around the world. Two fresh graduates from the University of California Yashraj Khaitan and Jacob Dickinson founded GRAM POWER which enables villagers to generate and store renewable energy from biomass, solar or wind on-site. While on a university project they came to know about the scarcity of electricity in villages, this goaded them to devise energy solutions for villagers. This year, Gram Power set up India's first 'Smart Micro grid' in a village close to Todaraisingh Mandal in Tonk district of Rajasthan, which had no electricity connections from state electricity grid. This powered around 200 people allowing them to operate common appliances at home. In national grid theft, transmission and heat losses eats up a major part of power but Gram Power's technology detects and eliminates energy theft and pilferage to increase energy distribution efficiency in addition to this it uses DC to supply the power. The grid is maintained by the money collected from the consumers. In villages kerosene play an important role in households. The Gram Power model helps rural consumers bypass conventional grid supplies and also costs less than the monthly spend on kerosene. Consumers pay Rs 75 per month under the pay-as-you-go model for standard grid connection instead of spending Rs 200 on kerosene and cell phone charging. GRAM POWER providing electricity by prepaid energy selling device. Gram Power, which has already powered 10 villages in Rajasthan, is now looking to form strong partnerships to increase access to their technology through state and central renewable energy ministries. The start up has a target to deploy 20 self owned smart micro grids with 250 kilowattpeak of generation, catering to almost 40,000 people over the next 12 months. As per GRAM POWER initial market size is nearly $7.7 Billion targeting people more than 300 million. A Swiss company has made...

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...number: | Power Politics and Knowledge |
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Resistance- The term resistance describes an outcome in which the target person is opposed to the proposal or request, and actively tries to avoid carrying it out.
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...﻿Eastin Ashby
Claudia Castaneda
Power and Privilege
15 September 2014
Path of Least Resistance
Was there ever a time when you didn't stand up for someone being taunted, or ridiculed, or bullied? A time when you made the choice to fit in with the crowd, to be liked by others, than to make waves?
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1. Discuss the statement of Lord Acton that “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely”. Give an example to argue your answer. (more or less 500 words)
2. How does media coverage of communal conflict in Indonesia recently influence your views on power and how power may be used to attain political objectives? Give example for your answer. (more or less 1000 words)
Answer :
1. “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely” is a famous statement of Lord Acton. Power can be defined as the ability to make choices or influence outcomes, which is also power held by a person or group of people in a society. While Corruption can be defined as spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. In economy, corruption is payment for services or material which the recipient is not due, under law.
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